Human Rights Groups Finally Catch On To UN Hypocrisy Yep, it took a while, but someone at these organizations finally took a list at the membership of the UN Human Rights Commission and noticed that two dozen of them, including this year's chairman, have been flagrant violators. But what better way to have your violations ignored than to simply be on the committee? North Korea, Iran and Nigeria are likely to win membership of the UN Commission on Human Rights in an election either at the end of this month or early next. Egypt is another candidate and, even though its abuses are not on the same scale as the others, it has been conducting a vigorous campaign against homosexuals. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International are among the organisations which are complaining that the inclusion of these countries makes a mockery of the organisation, and are urging reform of the process. They simply could have read my blog a year ago. The New York-based Human Rights Watch described the list of candidate countries as "a Who's Who of the worst human rights abusers." Seeking re-election are other countries with horrid records: Saudi Arabia, Cuba, Russia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Good luck, guys! Thanks for making the world safe from human rights issues. Article Here